Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human (Science and Cultural The...

Description: Product Description : Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human (Science and Cultural Theory) Throughout the recent culture and science wars the radically new conceptions of knowledge and science emerging from such fields as the history and sociology of science have been denounced by various journalists scientists and academics as irresponsible attacks on science absurd denials of objective reality or a cynical abandonment of truth itself In Scandalous Knowledge Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores and illuminates the intellectual contexts of these crude denunciations A preeminent scholar theorist and analyst of intellectual history Smith begins by looking closely at the epistemological developments at issue She presents a clear historically informed and philosophically sophisticated overview of important twentiethcentury critiques of traditionalrationalist realist positivistaccounts of human knowledge and scientific truth and discusses in detail the alternative accounts produced by Ludwik Fleck Thomas Kuhn Michel Foucault Bruno Latour and othersWith keen wit Smith demonstrates that the familiar charges involved in these scandalsincluding the recurrent invocation of postmodern relativismprotect intellectual orthodoxy by falsely associating important intellectual developments with logically absurd and morally or politically disabling positions She goes on to offer bold original and insightful perspectives on the currently strained relations between the natural sciences and the humanities on the grandiose but dubious claims of evolutionary psychology to explain human behavior cognition and culture and on contemporary controversies over the psychology biology and ethics of animalhuman relations Scandalous Knowledge is a provocative and compelling intervention into controversies that continue to roil through journalism pulpits laboratories and classrooms throughout the United States and Europe( it is an used product )

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